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Its story

In Aquila —the eagle that bears Zeus's thunderbolt— shines an orange K-type star. Its light has been on its way some three hundred fifteen years: it set out as the kingdoms of Spain and Scotland were transforming —Philip V launching the Bourbon dynasty, the Acts of Union founding the United Kingdom. Cooler and more golden than the Sun, it glows in a most serene copper tone. An early eighteenth-century ember on the eagle's wing, still crossing the void.